Karen E. Quinones Miller quotes

Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes.
-- Karen E. Quinones Miller

#Mistake #Self Esteem #Opportunity

Life it too short to deal with crazy people.
-- Karen E. Quinones Miller

#Life #Crazy #People

Stop spending so much time trying to prove what you already know to people who don't really matter. It just makes you look insecure and lacking self-confidence.
-- Karen E. Quinones Miller

#Self Esteem #Insecure #Self Confidence

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

When you have success on the field, you're more popular and you have that fame that comes with it. You realize you're in the public eye more and you've got to be a little bit more careful about some of the things you're doing out in public and make sure you're smart about the things you say. You're still going to make mistakes from time to time, but you represent an even greater population and people are that much more looking for you to be in the wrong place at the wrong time or fall down or say something really stupid that's going to get you in trouble.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

I never had a low self-esteem that would make me gay. At one point, though, the reverse happened. Being homosexual led me to have a loss of self-esteem when I first became aware of society's attitudes about homosexuality.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like

I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.

In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.